Setting up Hosting I can’t say enough good things about Dreamhost. Not only are they economical, their admin is completely user friendly and helpful as you go along – so you can easily understand setting up hosting for your websites. They also have online customer support, knowledge bases and other resources to help you along. Go to Domains> Manage Domains Add Hosting to a Domain / Sub-Domain Domain to host: Type in www.YOURDOMAIN.com Select : Leave it alone (Both will work) (There are a myriad of other options here but…

Domain Name Setup As said here elsewhere, use anybody but GoDaddy to Register and your domain names. I really can’t say enough bad things about them. Here are the main reasons: Even if you are using them only for domain name setup they are upsell-hell. Everything about their admin is designed to make it so they will sell you more crap you don’t need. The admin is also confusing which I believe is deliberate with the intent to sell you more or keeping you from cancelling services. For example:…

WordPress Setup For beginner or advanced users there’s nothing easier to use with more functionality than WordPress and it’s only getting better. Originally intended as blog software, it’s evolved into a means to design and manage almost any kind of website from personal blogs, photo sites with galleries, video streaming sites, members areas websites, business or corporate sites et al. There is no limit to what types of sites you can build with WordPress and because it’s open source – it’s all 100% free! You can spend money to…